The "things that make you realise you're getting older" thread

[Redder Lurtz]

My lad got engaged yesterday. 

 

Fuck sake. 

[tokyojoe]

5 minutes ago, Redder Lurtz said:

My lad got engaged yesterday. 

 

Fuck sake. 

Probably gonna wind up costing you  fortune mate.

 

RIP, YNWA etc etc...

[Redder Lurtz]

3 minutes ago, tokyojoe said:

Probably gonna wind up costing you  fortune mate.

 

RIP, YNWA etc etc...

 

Already started. Bottle of champagne and took them both out for a meal tonight. Well happy for them both. 

 

Fuck sake. 

[YorkshireRed]

Taking my eldest to University today. Seems like a heartbeat since he was crawling around the front room and offering his bottle to the cat. 
 

I want to rewind and have another go. 

[Mudface]

1 hour ago, YorkshireRed said:

Taking my eldest to University today. Seems like a heartbeat since he was crawling around the front room and offering his bottle to the cat. 
 

I want to rewind and have another go. 

 

If the bottle was Jack Daniels, it probably was about a heartbeat ago.

[VladimirIlyich]

1 hour ago, YorkshireRed said:

Taking my eldest to University today. Seems like a heartbeat since he was crawling around the front room and offering his bottle to the cat. 
 

I want to rewind and have another go. 

You do that with the Grandkids mate. Even though you have the experience your kids still wont listen to you then either!

[Kevin D]

All the nice clothes I bought, years ago, have buttons missing or holes in them.

[Preston Red]

Receiving my Hannants emails on a Saturday night for model making kits and accessories.

[House of Dirk]

Seeing the original post from 2008 about the new girl band The Saturdays having two members of S Club Juniors in thee group.

[tokyojoe]

4 hours ago, House of Dirk said:

Seeing the original post from 2008 about the new girl band The Saturdays having two members of S Club Juniors in thee group.

The fact I've never heard of either says it all.

[Bruce Spanner]

Just walked past a bizzie in the street and thought 'Fuck me he looks too young for that'.

[Section_31]

47 minutes ago, Bruce Spanner said:

Just walked past a bizzie in the street and thought 'Fuck me he looks too young for that'.

 

I feel that way about chief constables these days. 

[Special K]

I genuinely can't remember if I'm 46 or 47

[Jose Jones]

Was chucking a frisbee around in the park with the kids the other day, and I appear to have all of a sudden lost the ability to jump.

[Section_31]

It's fucked up the way nature suddenly decides it's done with you. Basically puts you out there like a facehugger in your adolescence and 20s and tells you to breed, then when your window is up literally everything gradually falls off, like nature basically views you as - to quote jimmy mcnulty - little more than a breathing machine for your dick.

[stringvest]

You boys.  Most of it is in the mind.  In my mind I’m still 58.

[littletedwest]

Had a flu jab yesterday. Anyway he told me he had to take my blood pressure due to my age.

He then told me it was perfect as was my heart rate. So fuck you old age.

[Creator Supreme]

39 minutes ago, stringvest said:

You boys.  Most of it is in the mind.  In my mind I’m still 58.

Wasn't that when the dinosaurs got wiped out?

[VladimirIlyich]

48 minutes ago, littletedwest said:

Had a flu jab yesterday. Anyway he told me he had to take my blood pressure due to my age.

He then told me it was perfect as was my heart rate. So fuck you old age.

You did tell him you were 73 though,didn't you?

[Beno]

On 01/10/2023 at 22:22, Special K said:

I genuinely can't remember if I'm 46 or 47

Wait until you can’t remember being 46 or 47. 

[markcd]

I took my kid and a mate to a gig in Brighton last week, and every track sounded like something else, "Well, they've robbed that off The Cure" - "that sounds like the first Strokes album" - just proper miserable old bastard stuff. 

 

I only cheered up when I found out that there were seats.

[littletedwest]

Oh on music I definitely sound like my dad. Load of blinking rubbish that,  who listens to this ect.

To be fair I feel I'm right. When they covered Bridge over troubled water for Grenfell they added a rap verse. Funnily enough we went with the original at my dad's funeral.

[Captain Turdseye]

Kids. 
 

Took the eldest to Uni on Monday, middle kid is doing her GCSE’s this year and the youngest is in Year 6. 
 

Feels like it won’t be long until they’re all gone. In the meantime, I’ve got some fucking painting to do, splitting the girls into their own rooms.
 

Promised to have the first room done by the end of this week. I’m gonna be absolutely fucked. 

[AngryOfTuebrook]

Realising that the only films you watched over and over as a kid were whichever ones were repeated on the three telly channels.

[Chris]

Watching every commercial for a tacky household gadget – for things like unblocking drains – and thinking "hmmm, that sounds useful, might get one of those."